North Korea

[PacadermaTideUs]

... makes you wonder what it would be like to live in that situation ...

Very few "unsupervised" accounts exist. But in the course of this conversation we've been having, I came across this account. Fairly interesting perspective from an American deserter, who's obviously received special favor for his cooperation with the aims of the regime.

 

[DiamondDust]

Very few "unsupervised" accounts exist. But in the course of this conversation we've been having, I came across this account. Fairly interesting perspective from an American deserter, who's obviously received special favor for his cooperation with the aims of the regime.

There's a documentary made about one of the American deserters. A British film crew did it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Line_(documentary)

 

[TexasBama]

I launch nuclear weapon! Except I too short to reach button.

 

[PacadermaTideUs]

I don't know whether or not they're crazy, but they sure take their sports embarrassments seriously...

North Korean football team shamed in six-hour public inquiry over World Cup

North Korea's football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team's coach has been accused of "betraying" the reclusive leader's heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports...

The entire squad was forced onto a stage at the People's Palace of Culture and subjected to criticism from Pak Myong-chol, the sports minister, as 400 government officials, students and journalists watched...

Following ideological criticism, the players were then allegedly forced to blame the coach for their defeats...

The team's coach, Kim Jong-hun, was reportedly forced to become a builder and has been expelled from the Workers' Party of Korea...

However, media in South Korea said the players got off lightly by North Korean standards.

"In the past, North Korean athletes and coaches who performed badly were sent to prison camps," a South Korean intelligence source told the Chosun Ilbo newspaper.

 

[DiamondDust]

I don't know whether or not they're crazy, but they sure take their sports embarrassments seriously...

North Korean football team shamed in six-hour public inquiry over World Cup

FIFA just needs to go ahead and count this under "governmental interference" and ban them for a few years.

 

[Bama1970]

Nuke em.
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[silentsam74]

That would quickly escalate into WW3, in which we all know there would be no winners, only losers.

Thats if you're only counting humans. In the event of WWIII you can go ahead and bow down to your new overlords.

In experiments, roaches were exposed to enough radiation to kill a human in 10 minutes. A month later half of that group of roaches were still alive. They then exposed another group to approximately the same amount of radiation as was emitted from the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. 10% of this group was alive a full month after the exposure.

 

[DiamondDust]

Thats if you're only counting humans. In the event of WWIII you can go ahead and bow down to your new overlords.

In experiments, roaches were exposed to enough radiation to kill a human in 10 minutes. A month later half of that group of roaches were still alive. They then exposed another group to approximately the same amount of radiation as was emitted from the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. 10% of this group was alive a full month after the exposure.

I love the line in Wargames that Falken gives:

Now, children, come on over here. I'm going to tell you a bedtime story. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. Once upon a time, there lived a magnificent race of animals that dominated the world through age after age. They ran, they swam, and they fought and they flew, until suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up,